Project “The Legends Unite us” Latvia Sidgunda Elementary School HEY, I’M GATIS I’m 15 years old. I like playing sports In winter I play hockey, in summer – floorball. I also I like biking and taking photographs. •I am 16 years old. •In my spare time I draw, work out, dance folk dances, have fun with my friends and do other things. I’m 15 years old. I have 2 sisters and one brother. I like swimming, dancing, sports and extreme’s things, but I don’t like skiing. Egita I’m 15 years old. I enjoy drawing and dancing. I also like sports and spending time by nature. In 1601 Swedish troops captured Turaida castle. After the battle a clerk of the castle Mr Greif found among the dead a small girl. He undertook to bring up the orphan and named her Maija. The years passed by and Maija grew up so beautiful, that people named her the Rose of Turaida. Gardener Victor Heil, the finacé of Maija, lived in Sigulda castle. In the evenings they met each other at Gūtmanis cave. Proposal to Maija was made also by Adam Jakubovsky. Maija rejected him and Jakubovsky decided to get her by deceit. He wrote a note, as it were from Victor, and invited her to meet at Gūtmanis cave. When Maija arrived, she understood that she was deceived. The girl decided better to die and remain faithful to her fiancé. She had a red silk scarf around her neck and she told Jakubovsky, that it would protect from the sword cut and asked to try. Jakubovsky tried and Maija lifeless fell down at his feet. Victor Heil found the murdered girl and he rushed in despair to Turaida for help. At the cave there was found gardener’s axe, lost in a hurry, therefore suspicion about Maija`s murder fell on Victor. He was arrested and tried. The course of events changed, when arrived Skudritis, a comrade-in- arms of Jakubovsky, who arrived in the court and told the truth. Victor was justified, but Maija was buried at the edge of Turaida graveyard, where Victor planted a linden tree on her grave. In nowdays The Rose of Turaida’s grave is a symbol of love and often newlyweds put flowers on her grave to strenghten their love towards each other. Thank you for your attention! .